Zach Aarons

General Partner & Co-Founder

Metaprop

Zach Aarons is an award-winning PropTech investor, best selling author, professor, and speaker who has been a pioneering thought leader at the forefront of real estate technology for over a decade. In 2010, while working as a Project Manager for internationally renowned large scale mixed-use real estate developer Millennium Partners, Zach began investing in early-stage PropTech companies, quickly becoming the most active angel investor in the space with over 50 portfolio companies. In 2015, Zach parlayed his experiences in the real estate and technology sectors to found MetaProp, devoting his career to the mission of utilizing technology to make real estate more affordable, accessible, sustainable, and resilient. Since founding MetaProp, Zach and his team have invested in 110 PropTech companies.

Cynthia Adams

CEO & Co-Founder

Pearl Certification

Cynthia Adams has 25 years of experience in sustainable building and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pearl Certification, a company that certifies the energy-efficient and renewable energy features of homes to document their value. In the parlance of Simon Sinek: empowering homeowners with information to enhance their quality of life and create sustainable communities is her why. Cynthia co-founded the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council, was voted 2021 Silicon Review’s 30 Best Leaders to Watch and 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council. She is also certified as a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional, a NAR GREEN Designee, and sits on the NAR Sustainability Advisory Board.

Deeana Ahmed

Chief Strategy Officer

Our Next Energy

Deeana Ahmed, PhD is the Chief Strategy Officer at Our Next Energy (ONE). Through ONE’s energy storage technology, Dr. Ahmed aims to help build a foundation for the widespread adoption and accessibility to alternative energy sources. She also assesses market needs and how to scale renewable energy. Dr. Ahmed helped ONE secure funding from major investors, including BMW i Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Dr. Ahmed spearheaded ONE’s search for its first North American battery factory and has facilitated partnerships with a variety of businesses and non-profits across the country. Ahmed holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and nutrition from Columbia University, an MSc and MPH in policy from Tufts University, and a BS from the University of Michigan. Deeana is a published researcher and policy analyst who has conducted large policy evaluations for the NYC Department of Education, managed grants for a Silicon Valley non-profit, and owns and operates a start-up education technology firm. Deeana is an alumnus of the University of Michigan Solar Car Team, where she led the development of the nationally as well as globally ranked solar car, InfiniUM’s battery pack.

Syed Ahmed

CEO & Founder

OnTraccr

As an engineer turned entrepreneur, Syed has helped build successful startups in both the agriculture and healthcare technology fields. With a focus on enabling laggard industries to become digitized and adopt the latest innovations, Syed has now set his sights on the construction industry. At OnTraccr, Syed and his team are on a mission to eliminate the manual construction management processes that have prevented the industry from improving its productivity for decades.

Dafna Akiva

CRO & Co-Founder

Veev

Dafna Akiva is Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and co-founder at Veev and has decades of experience across real estate investment, development, management, and construction. Dafna previously oversaw day-to-day operations at Veev and drove a number of company-scaling initiatives in her role as Chief Operating Officer. As CRO, she leads the expansion of Veev communities that redefine the user’s living experience and drives revenue growth for the company’s bottom line. She serves as the voice of the user for Veev product development, while overseeing all aspects of customer experience including account management, customer service, sales and marketing.

Kevin Albert

CEO & Co-Founder

Canvas

Kevin Albert is the CEO and co-founder of Canvas, a construction robotics company that is empowering skilled construction workers to build in bold new ways. Canvas has developed a new class of robotic tool that helps solve some of the construction industry’s most intractable challenges, including an unprecedented labor shortage, unpredictable quality, and chronic schedule and budget overruns. By combining worker skill and experience with the digital precision and machine learning capabilities of a robot, Canvas is enabling drywall finishing contractors to radically improve project outcomes while protecting the people doing the work. Kevin has more than 20 years of experience in the development of rugged robotic systems, including fundamental contributions to some of Boston Dynamics’ seminal works, Big Dog and LS3. After his time at Boston Dynamics, Kevin started the robotics research group at Otherlab focused on bringing robotics and automation out of the factory and into the hands of workers. He has run numerous robotics research programs, including collaborations with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and commercial aerospace partners to develop robots designed for deployment. Kevin is a graduate of Lehigh University and has a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Austin Allison

CEO & Co-Founder

Pacaso

Austin co-founded Pacaso to make the dream of second home ownership a reality for more people after experiencing the profound effect it had on his own life. Pacaso is Austin’s second startup. In 2009, he founded dotloop in his hometown of Cincinnati, a company that created software to seamlessly manage real estate transactions. Zillow acquired dotloop in 2015, and Austin continued to run dotloop as a Zillow executive until 2018. Austin started selling real estate at the age of 18 and worked in residential and commercial real estate for a decade. Austin enjoys running, mountain biking and flying. He lives in Napa, CA with his wife Angela and their son.

Lauren Alpeyrie

VP Global Innovation

PGIM RE

Lauren Alpeyrie is Vice President of Global Innovation at PGIM Real Estate, where she manages strategic projects and partnerships to advance innovation, adoption of new technology, and data strategy across PGIM Real Estate’s global debt and equity businesses. She has over 10 years of experience leading efforts in digital transformation, growth and go-to-market strategy, and transaction advisory in technology and commercial real estate.

Warren Andres

President

Andres Construction

Warren is a 42 year veteran of the commercial construction industry. He is president of ANDRES Construction Services based in Dallas Texas providing construction services for Multifamily, Hospitality, Senior Living, Private Institutional, and Office buildings in Dallas, Austin, and Houston. He is also president of TXBLDR ASSURANCE a Captive Insurance company that supports the construction projects.

Brian Bair

CEO & Chairman

Offerpad

Brian Bair has served as Offerpad’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors since he founded Offerpad in July 2015 with a mission to provide the best way to buy and sell a home. In September 2021, he also assumed the role of Chairman of the board. Mr. Bair has had a strong influence in the real estate industry over the past 15 years, having pioneered several successful real estate service models that aim to give sellers and buyers more certainty and control. Prior to founding Offerpad, Mr. Bair served as the founder and president at Bair Group Real Estate from April 2008 to June 2015. Additionally, Mr. Bair co-founded Lexington Financial in March 2011, and served as its managing member from March 2011 to March 2012. He also co-founded Bridgeport Financial Services in May 2008, a company that specialized in acquiring distressed homes, and served as its managing member from May 2008 to May 2011.

Meg Baldini

VP Corporate Development

Procore

Meg Baldini is the VP of Corporate Development for Procore Technologies, where she is responsible for managing strategic investments, M&A, and integrations. Meg joined Procore from Human Ventures Partners, a startup studio in NYC, and Dataminr, where she focused on corporate strategy and finance. Prior to working in tech, she worked in consulting at Cornerstone Research.

Steve Banfield

VP, Business Development, Marketplace

Placer.ai

Steve Banfield is Vice President of Business Development, Marketplace, for Placer.ai. Steve leads the team responsible for Placer partnerships with demographic, environmental, and other data providers whose products add important contextual analysis to the Placer platform. A leading technology industry veteran with over 20 years of experience creating products that have served millions of customers around the world, Steve has held executive roles at BMW, INRIX, Paramount Pictures, Sony, and RealNetworks. Steve has an MBA from Harvard Business School and received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Transylvania University.

Leila Banijamali

CEO & Co-Founder

Symbium

Leila Banijamali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Symbium Corp., the Complaw® company, which she launched in 2019 with her Stanford co-founders. The company is fundamentally disrupting how complex zoning regulations are consumed by the public through its freely-accessible Citizen’s Dashboard. Using Symbium, anyone can understand and visualize what’s possible on a particular piece of property and then submit a permit. Prior to launching Symbium, Banijamali founded businesses in the technology media industries in addition to acting as outside general counsel to hundreds of tech companies. In 2009, she founded the law firm, Bedrock, where she led over $200M in complex enterprise negotiations with Salesforce, Facebook, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Time Warner, Disney, Clorox, LinkedIn, and more.

Michael Barlow

CEO & Co-Founder

Fernish

Michael Barlow is the co-founder and CEO of Fernish and sets the vision and strategy as the company changes the way people create and relate to their homes. After completing his fifth move in eight years, Michael co-founded Fernish in 2017, a furniture-as-a service business designed to bring furniture into the service economy and give people the freedom to rent, swap, rent-to-buy, buy or return furniture as their life and living situations change.

Gary Beasley

CEO & Co-Founder

Roofstock

Gary is CEO of Roofstock, a leading real estate investment marketplace which he co-founded in 2015. Gary has spent most of his career building businesses in the real estate, hospitality and tech sectors. After earning his BA in economics from Northwestern, Gary ventured west to earn his MBA from Stanford, where he caught the entrepreneurial bug and still serves as a regular guest lecturer. Previously Gary was instrumental in acquiring and integrating more than $800 million of resort properties for KSL Resorts, and spent five years as CFO of online brokerage pioneer ZipRealty, which he led through its successful IPO in 2004. Gary also served as CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, then the second largest boutique hotel management company in the country. Immediately before starting Roofstock, Gary led one of the largest single-family rental platforms in the U.S. through its IPO as co-CEO of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, now part of Invitation Homes.

Rebecca Becker

VP, Climate Adaptation

Equity Residential

Rebecca Becker is the Vice President of Environmental and Climate Adaptation at Equity Residential, an S&P 500 company and real estate investment trust that owns or has investments in approximately 300 multifamily properties in urban and high-density suburban U.S. markets. Rebecca leads Equity Residential’s environmental and energy management programs, in addition to its climate change risk and adaptation program. She is experienced with advising on complex environmental matters to facilitate real estate transactions and management of multi-state and multimedia environmental risk programs, and her tenure at Equity Residential includes roles in both the Investments and Legal organizations. She is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) Sustainability Committee and The Seattle Office of Environmental and Sustainability Technical Advisory Group (TAG) working to develop the City’s Building Energy Performance Standards, and was named among the 2022 Connect CRE Women in Real Estate. Previously, she worked in environmental compliance management for the manufacturing sector. Rebecca has a bachelor’s in Environmental Policy and Behavior from the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability.

Brian Bellew

VP Operations

Atlas Real Estate

Brian has 10 years of experience in both property management and brokerage. He joined Atlas in 2014 as a property manager before switching to the brokerage team. From 2017 to 2020 Brian led the Zillow Offers team, managing five analysts and overseeing thousands of ibuying transactions. Today Brian has returned to his roots in property management to lead 100+ team members, including Atlas Home Services, and create operational processes that allow Atlas to continue providing 5-star service to residents and owners as the company experiences rapid growth. Brian holds a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Seattle Pacific University.

Elizabeth Bellis Wolfe

Senior Advisor

DOE Loans Program Office

Elizabeth Bellis Wolfe is a Senior Advisor to the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO), where among other responsibilities she coordinates outreach and business development for LPO’s Virtual Power Plant initiative, which provides financing to innovative, large, interconnected projects built on renewables, demand flexibility, efficiency, storage and other clean DERs. Previously, Elizabeth served as an attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Vice President at the New York Green Bank, a division of the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority. Elizabeth holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's from University of Chicago.

Daniel Berlind

CEO & Co-Founder

Snappt

Daniel Berlind is a real estate executive and the CEO of Snappt, an AI-enabled software that instantly prevents financial fraud in the multi-family housing industry. In 2019, Dan founded Snappt after running his own property management company and noticing a significant, industry-wide financial issue in the billion-dollar apartment rental industry. As a result, he launched Snappt, which provides proprietary software that aids and streamlines the apartment rental process by reducing bad debt, increasing asset value, and minimizing application review time.  Previously, Daniel was a professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins after attending California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. Today, Dan continues to grow Snappt’s operations, technology, sales, and fundraising efforts.

Breton Birkhofer

Managing Director

DivcoWest Ventures

Breton is the Managing Director of DivcoWest Ventures, where he is focused on investing in early and growth-stage construction tech and proptech companies. Breton previously helped launch Prologis Ventures, the venture arm of the largest industrial REIT, where he invested in companies transforming the future of commerce and the built environment. Prior to that, he managed channel partnerships at Euclid Analytics (acquired by WeWork), a leading location analytics software provider for brick-and-mortar businesses. He started his career as a CleanTech Investment Banking analyst at Jefferies where he advised clients on M&A and equity financings. Breton earned a MBA from UC Berkeley and BA in Economics from Stanford University.

David Bloom

Sr. Associate

Kyber Knight

David is Senior Associate at Kyber Knight Capital, a newly launched $120m preseed and seed fund based in San Francisco. KKC invests in founders building across AI, labor, commerce, and the built environment. Check sizes range from $500k-$3m.

Tim Boike

VP, Industry Relations

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

As VP, Industry Relations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Tim leads industry collaboration efforts among payment system stakeholders including financial institutions, fin-tech firms, merchants, consumer interest groups, trade associations and government agencies. He works to catalyze the development and adoption of improvements to enhance the speed, safety, and efficiency of the U.S. payment system.

Or Bokobza

CEO & Co-Founder

Venn

Or Bokobza is the CEO and Co-Founder of Venn, the world’s leading end-to-end platform that helps owner-operators modernize their resident experience to maximize NOI. His expertise in integrating technology and community insights has propelled Venn’s growth and positioned the company at the forefront of transforming how owner-operators, property managers and residents engage with their apartments, buildings and neighborhoods. With a commitment to continuous innovation, Or is dedicated to creating transformative solutions that elevate the multifamily living experience for all stakeholders.

Doug Brien

CEO & Co-Founder

Mynd

Doug Brien is the CEO and co-founder of Mynd, the company on a mission to make real estate investing more accessible by leveraging technology to unlock remote investing at scale. Powered by a proprietary all-in-one platform, Mynd streamlines the entire investment journey. Ranging from first-time individual investors to seasoned institutional investors, Mynd empowers more Americans to build wealth through the single-family rental sector. A former Super Bowl-winning NFL placekicker, Brien got his start in real estate following the collapse of the housing market in early 2009, when he and Colin Wiel founded Waypoint Homes and began buying single-family homes to renovate and rent out. Together, they scaled up their company in an industry that had been the domain of smaller players, building a $3 billion portfolio with over 17,000 single-family rental homes.

Arnold Brier

SVP, General Counsel

Yardi

Arnie Brier joined Yardi in 2011 with 25 years of experience in corporate and commercial real estate law. Prior to joining Yardi, Arnie was a shareholder at a national law firm leading the firm’s California corporate department. During that time, he worked closely with Yardi on its company acquisitions. His professional experience also includes serving as general counsel for technology companies and as senior counsel for a Fortune 5 company. He manages Yardi’s M&A efforts and oversees the company’s Legal, Human Resource, and Risk departments,. Arnie earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan and his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jeff Brodsky

Vice Chairman

Related Companies

Jeffrey I. Brodsky is Vice Chairman of Related Companies where he works closely with Related’s executive team to optimize business development and drive improved performance and results across the platform and internationally. Mr. Brodsky joined Related’s affordable housing development group in 1982, has been an Executive Vice President of Related Affordable for 18 years, and served as President of Related Management from 1997 through 2015. He also leads Related Companies’ initiative to increase diversity, equity and inclusion within the company and the broader real estate industry. Mr. Brodsky is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York Residential Management Council and the recipient of its 2006 George M. Brooker Management Executive of the Year award, the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the National Leased Housing Association, the Realty Advisory Board of N.Y., and served a 4 year role as the Chairman of the Property Management committee of the National Multi‐Housing Council. He is the 2009 recipient of the Institute for Real Estate Management (IREM) NY Chapter Certified Property Manager of the Year Award.

Eric Brody

Principal & Founder

ANAX Real Estate Partners

Eric Brody is an accomplished builder and developer in New York City with nearly two decades of experience in the mid-market multifamily sector. The son of an architect, Eric has developed approximately 800 units across NYC, totaling nearly $1 billion worth of real estate. Noticing the inefficiencies of the construction and development process, Eric launched ANAX Real Estate Partners, a privately-held, New York City-based construction and development company, as well as ANAX Ventures, an early-stage proptech investment fund focused on identifying and testing solutions that impact the urban landscape. Through ANAX, Eric invests in nascent technologies and then implements them in his own developments, forging the path for the transformation of the real estate and construction industry. Eric was previously the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner at Wonder Works Construction, where he led the operations and oversaw multiple project execution, asset acquisition, debt/equity procurement, and investor relations.

André Brueck

Innovation Manager

Goldbeck GmbH

André Brueck is Innovation Manager at Goldbeck US, a subsidiary of Goldbeck GmbH, a vertically integrated general contractor based in Europe. In his position, he is responsible for innovations in the areas of sustainability as well as construction technology. Prior to this role, André worked for Goldbeck GmbH in Europe for many years. He came to his current position through his work as VDC Manager. Previously - Andre was an integral project manager for multi-story construction projects and started his career as a construction manager. André was born in Frankfurt, Germany and has lived in San Francisco, California for the past year. André graduated with a degree within civil engineering from Wismar University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

Karen Burns

CTO & Co-Founder

Fyma

Karen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fyma where they help build better places with data. Fyma partners with commercial real estate developers and asset managers to help them make sense of their built space: from footfall to all kinds of transport, accessibility and dwell time analytics. Karen has over 17 years of international operational and managerial experience in ICT consulting companies from the United Kingdom, South Africa and the Middle East. She is passionate about getting more women into STEM and management positions and changing the built environment for the better through the use of better quality data and insights.

Faisal Butt

Managing Partner & Founder

Pi Labs

Faisal is the Managing Partner and Founder of Pi Labs, a London-based venture capital firm focused on backing companies that are at the forefront of digitalising the real estate and construction sectors. Faisal founded Pi Labs in 2015, after leading the first round of investments in Hubble and Trussle as an individual investor. Faisal and his team have built a portfolio of over 70 companies from across the globe, all of whom are working to transform the way global industries and societies are interacting with our built world. Faisal is also the founder of Spire Ventures, a personal investment vehicle with a focus on investment in traditional property services companies. His traditional property investments include POD Management, Beaumont Bailey, and 90 North, a real estate investment manager which has managed $2bn of real estate assets across Europe and the USA.

Johanna Buurman

VP Professional Services

Measurabl

Johanna Buurman is Measurabl’s Vice President of Professional Services, where she leads a fast-growing team of consultants who help clients set and act on their ESG goals, embed sustainability into their operational processes, and respond to climate risk. Johanna has over 25 years of global experience in aligning strategy and execution, diagnosing and crafting solutions, and building teams to deliver results. She has worked inside and with clients in various sectors, including automotive, healthcare, high-tech, real estate, and government. She holds a LEED AP credential and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She is passionate about driving business towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals and advising the Energy 2040 Commission on energy efficiency and a just energy transition.

Pierre Calzadilla

EVP Growth

Local Logic

Pierre is a 4x startup sales & marketing leader, passionate about real estate, from Proptech to CRE tech. Pierre thrives on building high-performing teams in fast-growing organizations. He started on the brokerage side in NYC, running media and agent sales training before joining Trulia in 2006, where he spent an exciting eight years building teams in Brokerage Sales, Industry Marketing, Agent Sales, and Trulia Rentals. From there, he helped bring RealScout national over almost four years and is now the EVP of Growth for Local Logic. With 20 years of Real Estate Industry experience, Pierre is a regular contributor to our industry in podcasts, articles, and panels.

Jeff Carleton

CEO & Co-Founder

Runwise

Jeff Carleton is the CEO as well as Co-Founder of Runwise. Runwise builds technology that helps buildings run their heating plants more comfortably and efficiently. The platform is currently installed in more than 5,000 buildings in the Northeast. Jeff was previously director of operations for a large real estate owner in New York City, observing first-hand how inefficiently building systems ran, and how the industry had limited technology offerings to help. He then went on to co-found Runwise with Lee Hoffman and Michael Cook to help operators run more comfortable and efficient properties. Jeff holds both a CEM and CBCP through the Association of Energy Engineers.

Geoff Carran

Senior Director Of Investments

Osgoode Properties

Geoff Carran is a seasoned investment professional and the Senior Director of Investments at Osgoode Properties. With a background in chemical engineering and investment management, he brings a unique blend of technical and business expertise to his role. Over the course of his more than fifteen year career, Geoff has gained experience in buy side, sell side and private investment roles, spanning multiple asset classes such as private equity, public equity, and real estate. At Osgoode Properties, Geoff is leading the charge in modernizing the company's asset management as well as property management platform while also spearheading decarbonization initiatives. When he is not working, Geoff finds himself enjoying backcountry skiing and coaching his son’s little league team.

Jeanne Casey

Global Head Of Proptech & Innovation

Nuveen

Jeanne Casey is the Global Head of PropTech & Innovation at Nuveen, and leads investments and insights in PropTech for the firm. Previously, Jeanne was a Principal at MetaProp, a leading PropTech venture capital firm based in New York. Prior to joining MetaProp, Jeanne was a founding team member and Vice President at Digital Alpha where she worked on the launch, fundraising, and deployment of a $300m growth equity fund focused on digital infrastructure. She has previous experience with Cisco and Morgan Stanley, and holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.

Vardahn Chaudhry

VP, Investments, Digital Infrastructure

JBG Smith

Vardahn is a Vice President in the Investments group at JBG SMITH where he leads the firm’s Digital Infrastructure strategy. JBGS is deploying a first-of-its-kind urban digital infrastructure investment platform across National Landing including fiber, data centers, towers (small cells & macro), and spectrum assets. Vardahn also oversees the firm’s venture capital fund investments and various other strategic initiatives to advance adoption of new technologies. Prior to joining JBGS, Vardahn was the lead consultant in Accenture’s Smart Cities and Digital Infrastructure practice where he worked across industries (public sector, real estate, telecom, resources) on strategy, investment, and operations consulting. Vardahn is based in Washington, DC and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Smart Cities & Urban Analytics from the University College London, and a Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment from MIT (Accenture-sponsored).

Kenon Chen

EVP Of Strategy And Growth

Clear Capital

With more than 25 years of product development and technology experience under his belt, Kenon Chen is a recognized industry leader in real estate and fintech. As EVP of Strategy and Growth, Kenon sits at the intersection of Clear Capital’s executive, product, marketing, and sales teams. He joined Clear Capital in 2003 and has been instrumental to the company’s product strategy and vision, working to develop and bring to market some of its most forward-looking solutions. At the end of the day, his goal is simple: make real estate better for homeowners, homebuyers, and industry professionals alike.

Mark Chen

CEO & Founder

CNaught

Mark Chen is the Founder and CEO of CNaught, a leading platform for companies to purchase carbon offsets. Mark is a seasoned entrepreneur and tech executive with decades of experience in climate, software development, marketplaces, and artificial intelligence. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer at Bessemer-backed Rev, the company behind speech-to-text services recognized as America’s “most promising” AI technology by Forbes. Prior to Rev, Mark led global marketing and product management for photovoltaic manufacturer Abound Solar. Mark is passionate about building products that simplify complex processes and have a meaningful impact on the environment. He holds BS and MEng degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Tyler Christiansen

CEO

Funnel

Tyler brings over a decade of multifamily experience to Funnel, including six years running the national sales organization for one of the top three property management software companies. He is focused on disrupting antiquated practices that don’t make sense, and waste money or time. He believes tech should bring out the best in your business, your team and for your customers, which is why Funnel’s Renter Management Software flips the status quo multifamily business model on its head. Tyler is a graduate of BYU, and lives in Tampa with his family.

Joe Cianciolo

CEO & Co-Founder

HomePace

Joe Cianciolo is the CEO and Co-Founder of HomePace. HomePace's platform helps homeowners achieve financial goals by accessing their home equity without taking on additional debt and monthly payments. Joe has spent the majority of his career building fintech companies. Prior to founding HomePace, he was VP of Business Development at robo-advisor FutureAdvisor, helping lead the company to its successful acquisition by BlackRock. Following the acquisition, Joe oversaw BlackRock’s efforts to grow and commercialize its wealth management technology platform. He’s also held executive leadership roles at innovative venture-backed fintech companies such as SecondMarket (acquired by Nasdaq) and early home equity investment provider Unison.

Yishai Cohen

CEO & Co-Founder

Landa

Yishai Cohen is the co-founder and CEO of Landa. Prior to founding Landa, Cohen was the founder of SmartBus, a B2B transportation platform, which was acquired in 2016. Cohen has extensive experience in internet and mobile products, marketplaces, and technology.

Kat Collins

Principal

1Sharpe Ventures

Kat is a Principal at 1Sharpe Ventures. Prior to joining 1Sharpe, Kat spent 5+ years as a proptech investor and consultant: COO at Shelter Acquisition Corp, a proptech-focused SPAC sponsor, investor at Metaprop and Fifth Wall, and consultant to startups such as Zeus Living and Edgewise. Kat started her venture career at Industry Ventures, a multi-stage generalist platform. Kat also represents the fourth generation of her family’s real estate development company. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Travis Connors

General Partner

Building Ventures

Building Ventures Co-Founder and General Partner Travis Connors works closely with portfolio companies across the building lifecycle, drawing from his decades of experience as an investor, in built environment innovation as well as software and technology broadly. Before founding Building Ventures, Travis was a member of the built environment investment team at Borealis Ventures. Prior to that, Travis was a partner at early stage venture capital firm Egan-Managed Capital. Travis currently serves on the advisory board for CREtech and the leadership board for the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation.

Shaheen Contractor

Sr. Research Strategist, ESG

Bloomberg

Shaheen Contractor, CFA, is a Senior Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Research Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, a platform that provides research on industries, companies, government, litigation and the economy, available on the Bloomberg Professional Services at BI<GO>. Her research efforts include analyzing ESG performance and its impact on risk, return and valuations; drivers and challenges for ESG funds; material ESG risks and opportunities across sectors and the impacts of a low carbon transition.

Drew Conway

Head Of Private Investments Data Science

Two Sigma

Drew Conway currently leads Two Sigma’s Strategic Data Science team where his responsibilities include serving as the Head of Data Science for Two Sigma Private Investments. Mr. Conway oversees all data science initiatives for Two Sigma Private Investments, including Two Sigma Real Estate, where he manages strategy and resourcing. He is also a non-voting observer of the Two Sigma Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining Two Sigma, Mr. Conway founded Alluvium to bridge the gap between industrial machine data and the business and consumer users who use this data to make better decisions. He served as CEO and was the driving force behind the company's vision and growth, until its acquisition in 2019 (acquired by Augury). Mr. Conway is a former senior advisor to the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics for the City of New York, and he previously served as an advisor to Mortar Data (acquired by Datadog in 2015) and YHat (acquired by Alteryx in 2017). Mr. Conway started his career as a computational social scientist in the U.S. intelligence community, supporting the U.S. counter-terrorism mission.

Courtney Cooper

Principal

Alate Partners

Courtney Cooper is a principal at Alate Partners. In this role, she helps identify and scale promising proptech start-ups, provides market analysis and due diligence, and manages relationships with industry partners. Courtney has spent over ten years at the intersection of real estate, operations, and technology. Prior to Alate, she led digital transformation and innovation initiatives at some of Canada’s leading real estate and financial services companies, including Dream and Great-West Life. Courtney graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Business Administration. She is the co-founder of Proptech Collective and a member of the ULI Toronto Advisory Board.

Bryan Copley

CEO & Co-Founder

CityBldr

Bryan is a leader in the proptech industry with over two decades experience at the intersection of real estate, data, technology and finance. A serial real estate entrepreneur, Bryan has spoken at and collaborated with the real estate departments at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and UW, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. In 2016 he co-founded CityBldr with Devyn Cairns, building on their work together at two previous proptech companies. Forbes listed CityBldr #1 of 11 companies transforming commercial real estate through AI.

Cody Crye

VP Agent Development

Crye-Leike Realtors

Cody Crye has grown up around his family’s business, Crye-Leike Realtors, since the day he was born. Cody became a licensed real estate professional in August of 2019. He began his real estate career working in Crye-Leike’s Property Management division while home for the summer from college. Cody graduated from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in May of 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Following graduation, Cody moved back to Nashville and immediately began his post-graduate career working for Crye-Leike. Cody has worked in many of Crye-Leike’s divisions including Realty Title, Community Mortgage, and Crye-Leike Property Management.

Anthony DeBono

CEO & Founder

Hohme

With over 18 years experience, Anthony is the creative and visionary mastermind behind d3 creative studio and hohme.io, a proven innovator and trusted ally to some of the nations leading builders and real estate developers.

Adam Demuyakor

Managing Partner & Founder

Wilshire Lane

Adam is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wilshire Lane Capital. Prior to founding Wilshire Lane Capital, he worked as a venture capital investor at Fifth Wall Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Before his career in venture capital, Adam worked as an investor on Wall Street, both as a hedge fund investor at The Carlyle Group and in the Real Estate Group at Morgan Stanley in New York City. Adam graduated with High Honors from Harvard College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Adam is a current Board Member for Stuf Storage, Piñata, Radish Health, Hungry House, and Pronto Housing.

Carrie Denning Jackson

Director Of Tech & Innovation

Jamestown

Carrie Denning Jackson is Director of Tech & Innovation at Jamestown. Prior to joining Jamestown, Ms. Denning Jackson was a Director on the Development team at Sidewalk Labs, Google’s urban innovation company, where she was responsible for ground floor development and innovation strategy. She originally joined Sidewalk Labs as Chief of Staff. Ms. Denning Jackson is board member of Plan A Health, trubel&co, and The Nature Conservancy in New York. She has a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.

David Dewane

Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder

geniant

David is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer (Physical Space) of geniant. David has a background in ecologically and socially equitable design and trained at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin, Texas. This foundation in applied research has allowed him to contribute to projects on the cutting edge of environmental sustainability and evolutionary design practices.

Gregory Dewerpe

CIO & Founder

A/O Proptech

Gregory is the founder of A/O PropTech and a seasoned real estate and technolo- gy investor with over 15 years of experi- ence across I banking real estate and venture and multibillion deal making history and a deep understanding of the financial markets real estate and venture capital ecosystems. A/O PropTech is Europe’s largest Prop- Tech venture capital firm which invests in technology companies disrupting the real estate and hospitality industry. A/O Prop- Tech has a unique permanent capital approach a strategic real estate portfolio sandbox of over $40bn provided by its LPs (some of the largest European real estate companies) and a unique approach to venture investing with a team of real estate, finance, data science, engineering professionals.

Shannon Diesch

CEO & Co-Founder

Quarter

Shannon Diesch is CEO of Quarter, the first fractional equity-based home funding program, and enabling technology platform, with the aim of providing housing finance to millions who cannot afford a home using traditional debt-based mortgage. Prior to joining Quarter, Diesch worked at Capital One as a credit and financial analyst in their Risk Management department. Shannon attended Phillips Exeter Academy and is a graduate from Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, holding a B.S. in Operations Research and minoring in Computer Science and Economics.

Josh Dorfman

CEO & Co-Founder

Plantd

Josh Dorfman is a sustainability-driven entrepreneur who has led tech, media, and manufacturing ventures. Josh is co-founder and CEO of Plantd, a carbon-negative building materials company pioneering a novel path to gigaton-scale carbon capture. At Amazon, Josh led Vine.com, an e-commerce business for natural, organic, and sustainable products. Earlier, Josh founded two award-winning, modern design sustainable furniture companies: Vivavi and Simbly. Josh was also the founder and host of The Lazy Environmentalist, a multi-platform consumer entertainment brand featuring a Sundance Channel television series, SiriusXM radio show, book series, and national spokesperson engagements with Brita and Clorox Greenworks.

Daniel Dubois

President & Co-Founder

Key

Daniel is a serial tech entrepreneur focused on creating a world where real estate is a source of freedom and prosperity for the missing middle. Key is a fraction co-ownership tech platform that allows real estate owners to turn their residents into owner-resident partners. After creating, building, and selling his last two venture-backed companies, Daniel joined Airbnb full-time, where he led and managed growth in their top-tier markets. Daniel is an entrepreneurship Delegate for the B7 and G20 YEA Summits and had one-on-one meetings with world leaders on fostering innovation, including Kofi Annan, Justin Trudeau and Prince William. Daniel’s passion for leveraging technology and building meaningful communities is central to why he founded Key.

Scott Dunphy

Director

Metlife Investment Management

Scott Dunphy is an Assistant Portfolio Manager at MetLife Investment Management (MIM), where he assists in portfolio strategy, investment decisions, and real estate intelligence. Scott is passionate about artificial intelligence and data and seeks to leverage innovative technologies to enhance decision-making and scale MIM's real estate investment management business.

Scott Durkin

CEO & President

Douglas Elliman

Douglas Elliman President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Durkin has been an industry leader for nearly three decades and is a driving force behind the globally recognized brokerage’s ranking as one of the largest independent residential real estate firms in the United States. Scott’s meteoric rise at the New York City based firm began when he was hired as Executive Vice President in January 2016 as part of the company’s effort to grow a nationwide presence. He was quickly promoted to Chief Operating Officer in October 2016, President in December 2017 and Chief Executive Officer in 2021. From the outset, Scott has helped oversee expansion efforts in New York, Florida, California, Massachusetts and Texas, as well as restructured operations in Westchester, Connecticut and the Hamptons. He has also led the development of a more streamlined and strategic operations team, bringing together top-tier talent across a range of disciplines including public relations, marketing and technology. Previously, Scott enjoyed a 26-year tenure at The Corcoran Group, where he was a protégé of Barbara Corcoran. He quickly earned a number of esteemed titles, including Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director of the Chelsea Flatiron office, which ranked among the company’s top 10 locations nationwide during his 11 years of leadership.

Danielle Dy Buncio

CEO & Founder

VIATechnik

Danielle Dy Buncio is the Co-Founder & CEO of VIATechnik, a leader in digital transformation, on a mission to bring the built environment towards a better future, today. VIATechnik is advancing the construction and real estate industries through solutions spanning Virtual Design & Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), virtual & augmented reality, digital twins, enterprise software application development, and more. Danielle serves on the Board of Directors for Ryan Companies US, a $3B+ Integrated Real Estate Development, Construction, and Design firm, and for JF Brennan, a national civil and marine infrastructure construction firm.

Eric Eckardt

EIR

Tenney 110

Eric is a highly-regarded real estate executive with over 20 years of professional experience leading startup, public and private companies. He has a history of successful exits and a founder of multiple real estate companies. Recognized as a Powerful Leader by SP200 and as a Game Changer by REAL Trends, he's held top executive level positions for several prop-tech companies. This includes Chief Consumer Officer at Real (NASDAQ: REAX) and Chief Executive Officer at Purplebricks (LSE: PURP). He has been featured and quoted in numerous publications and broadcast media including: CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg Radio and others.

Gene Eidelman

Co-Founder

Azure Printed Homes

Gene Eidelman is a cofounder of Azure Printed Homes. Azure is fundamentally changing the construction industry by 3D printing homes with recycled polymers 70% faster and 30% less expensive than current construction methods with positive environmental impact. Gene immigrated to Los Angeles from Ukraine. He was recognized for resettling 6,000 refugees from the former Soviet Union, and appeared on Oprah Winfrey Show. He also served on boards of numerous non-profit educational organizations in the US, India, and the UK. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and is working on a Ph.D. in sustainable construction. He has three grown and successful sons, and enjoys hiking, downhill skiing, playing and watching soccer.

Dave Eisenberg

Managing Director & Founder

Zigg Capital

David Eisenberg is the Founder and Managing Director of Zigg Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the real estate, construction and retail industries. Representative early stage investments include Procore (NYSE: PCOR), Juniper Square, VTS, Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR) and Snapdocs. Prior to founding Zigg, he served as the Global SVP of Technology of CBRE. He joined CBRE as a result of its acquisition of Floored, a commercial real estate software company founded by Mr. Eisenberg and led by him as its Chief Executive Officer from 2012-2017. Earlier in Mr. Eisenberg's career, he was a founding team member of two other retail technology businesses, TellApart (later acquired by Twitter) and Bonobos (later acquired by Walmart). Mr. Eisenberg started his career at Bain & Company and graduated from Harvard.

Di-Ann Eisnor

CEO & Co-Founder

Crews by Core Construction

Di-Ann Eisnor is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive in the technology and construction industries. As Co-Founder and CEO of Crews by Core Construction, she combines community and technology to solve complex urban problems. With a decade of experience at Waze and Google, she founded Waze's US office and contributed to its acquisition by Google. She currently serves on multiple boards and is deeply committed to creating solutions that support workers.

Matt Ellis

CEO & Founder

Measurabl

Matt is Founder and CEO of Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG software for real estate. Customers use Measurabl to measure, manage, report, and act on ESG data on more than 13 billion square feet of real estate across 90 countries valued in excess of USD $2 trillion. Before Measurabl Matt spent five years with CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services company, where he led its Sustainability Practice Group, implemented the company’s industry-first global carbon neutrality program, and served as the first Director of Sustainability Solutions and youngest member of its Global Sustainability Advisory Committee.

John Ensign

President

MRI Software

John Ensign is President and Executive Managing Director of North America at MRI Software. He has been an executive with the company since 2010 and most recently held the position of President and Chief Legal Officer. In his current role, John oversees all North American operations at MRI Software as well as MRI’s shared services, including global client support, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, talent management, employee relations, and benefits.

Michael Episcope

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Origin Investments

In 2007, Michael Episcope co-founded Origin Investments, a top-decile fund manager that helps high-net-worth investors, family offices and clients of registered investment advisors grow and preserve wealth by providing best-in-class real estate solutions. With Michael’s leadership, Origin has more than $1.3 billion in equity under management and has executed more than $2.8 billion in real estate transactions in fast-growing markets throughout the U.S. He is co-CEO, co-chairs the investment committee and oversees investor relations and capital raising. Prior to Origin, Michael had a prolific trading career and twice was named one of the top 100 traders in the world by Trader Monthly Magazine. Michael earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from DePaul University. He has more than 30 years of investment and risk management experience and has been an integral contributor to Origin’s innovative practices and investment success.

Ofo Ezeugwu

CEO & Founder

WYL

Ofo Ezeugwu is the CEO and Founder of WYL (WhoseYourLandlord) and a 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 lister for his work in social impact. WYL is a VC and Google-backed platform that turns meaningful feedback from residents on their living experiences into actionable insights that help home providers better understand and engage their communities. He graduated from Temple University and was the VP of the student body and the youngest alumni convocation speaker in the school's history. Ofo was recently named to Forbes’ #Next1000 List, recognized as the Young Professional of the Year by the African American Chamber of Commerce, and was named one of BET's #30Under30 as well as a Modern Man by Black Enterprise. His work has been featured in TechCrunch, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Blavity, The New York Post, and more.

Drew Fabrikant

CEO & Founder

Scout

Drew is the founder and CEO of Scout, a software-as-a-service company that leverages AI and machine learning to help organizations improve their customer relationships. Previously, Drew served as the Managing Director of VOR, a real estate holdings company. Prior to that, Drew spent time as a senior executive of a Registered Investment Advisor on Wall Street and as an attorney at Skadden Arps where he practiced Financial Institutions Mergers and Acquisitions. Drew is a current advisor to OS NY, an esports venue in New York City, and advised OS Studios through their acquisition by Project Worldwide. Drew received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A. from the University of Maryland.

Melissa Fagan

Vice President

RET Ventures

Melissa is a Vice President at RET Ventures. In this role, Melissa works closely with numerous portfolio companies on a day-to-day basis and sources and vets potential startups for RET investment. Prior to RET, Melissa worked as an Investment Associate at KSL Capital, where she invested in real estate and private equity companies focused on travel and leisure. Melissa began her career in private equity in Goldman Sachs' Real Estate Principal Investment Area. Melissa holds a B.S.E. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University. Outside of work, Melissa enjoys hiking, traveling, and watching the Chargers on Sundays.

Ramy Fam

VP

CRH Ventures

Ramy Fam brings nine years of experience across construction, building materials, strategy and innovation. Prior to his role in CRH Ventures, Ramy worked at Amazon where he managed their flagship program, Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) in Spain. Before Amazon, he had extensive experience in construction working in the CVC and later the Corporate Strategy and M&A arm of Cemex and in the Project Management departments of AECOM and SNC-Lavalin where he oversaw the project cost and planning across mega projects in Oil & Gas, Mining, and Transmission & Distribution. Ramy holds a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from McGill University and an MBA from IE Business School.

Franco Faraudo

Co-Founder

Propmodo

Franco Faraudo has an MBA in entrepreneurship and has worked with companies on their branding and content strategy. He has worked in real estate as an agent, manager, and investor. He writes about the intersection between the physical and digital world and is a co-founder of Propmodo.

Elie Finegold

Managing Director

Crow Holdings

Elie Finegold is a Managing Director at Crow Holdings, where he leads the firm’s venture and technology investment practice. Elie has been an entrepreneur and leader at the intersection of real estate and technology for nearly 20 years, and currently also serves as a Venture Advisor at MetaProp, the leading, early-stage PropTech VC fund, and as an advisor to numerous early and growth stage companies. Prior to joining Crow Holdings, Elie led Global Innovation at CBRE, establishing the function during the formative years of the current wave of real estate technology. He was a founding member of real estate merchant banking firm Island Capital Group and was the President and co-founder of IGY Marinas, which, under his leadership, grew into a $1.5 billion AUM vertically integrated global real estate business that is the world’s largest owner, operator, and developer of mega-yacht marinas and waterfront mixed-use projects. Elie was also the Chief Innovation Officer of the former Insignia Financial Group and founded several startups in both the real estate and technology sectors. He continues to be a leader in the evolution of the PropTech industry, serving on numerous industry leadership boards and writing and speaking around the world on the subject. Elie graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Special Concentration in Music and Culture, with his academic works published by Harvard Library Press.

Jake Fingert

Managing Partner

Camber Creek

Jake Fingert is a Managing Partner at Camber Creek. He coordinates all aspects of Camber Creek’s operations and portfolio management. Jake leads the due diligence process for potential investments, makes investment decisions and participates in the management of portfolio companies. Jake currently or previously held board roles with Camber Creek portfolio companies Arcadia, Bowery Valuation, Darwin Homes (acquired by Pagaya), Funnel, Keyway, Measurabl, Notarize, Petscreening, Placemakr, and Rabbet. Jake was previously appointed by President Obama as a Senior Policy Advisor on the National Economic Council at the White House, and before that was a Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the General Services Administration. In both roles Jake identified new investments and managed operations for the Federal Government’s infrastructure and real estate portfolio of approximately 350 million square feet. Prior to joining the government, he was a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group where he served on the management team in North America and Asia and focused on large scale digital transformation efforts. Jake received a BA with high distinction from Emory University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Cody Finke

CEO & Co-Founder

Brimstone

Cody Finke is the Co-Founder as well as Chief Executive Officer of Brimstone, a climate-tech company on a mission to decarbonize cement production. He holds a BA with distinction in Chemistry from Carleton College and a Ph.D. from Caltech, where he focused on electrochemistry and industrial decarbonization. Following his Ph.D., Cody conducted postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a DOE-funded Cyclotron Road entrepreneurial fellow. Cody co-founded the Oakland, California-based Brimstone to decarbonize an industry that today accounts for 5.5% of global GHG emissions. Brimstone is developing a carbon-negative tech to produce ordinary portland cement using calcium silicate rock, which would be cost parity or better at scale. Its innovative solution has been recognized by International Energy Agency, Global Cleantech 100, Norrsken’s Impact 100 list as well as Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies (Energy & Sustainability). Brimstone's investors include Fifth Wall, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, DCVC, Collaborative Fund & Amazon Climate Pledge.

Jonathan Fishman

CEO & Founder

Bizydev

Jonathan Fishman is the Founder and CEO of Bizydev, a New York City-based business development group. With over 15 years of experience in NYC real estate as an owner/operator, Jonathan has established himself as an industry leader and innovator. At Bizydev, Jonathan and his team specialize in assisting technology, product, and service companies in accelerating their business growth and market presence. Renowned for their expertise in customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, capital connections, and GTM strategies, Bizydev is recognized as a trusted resource in the industry. Jonathan's extensive experience in real estate, including the acquisition and ownership/operations of properties valued at over $1 billion, provides a unique perspective on the intersection of technology and the real estate market. His deep understanding of the industry landscape and his ability to identify cutting-edge solutions make him a valuable resource for businesses seeking growth and differentiation.

Michael Flight

CEO & Co-Founder

Liberty Real Estate Fund

"Michael Flight was named the Godfather of Blockchain Real Estate by Forbes Crypto. Michael achieved that distinction by co-founding Liberty Real Estate Fund, the World’s First Net Lease Security Token Fund, creating the Blockchain Real Estate Summit. More recently co-founding Invest On Main (IOM.ai) the Real Estate & Alternative Asset marketplace of the future! Michael is a real estate entrepreneur and real estate tokenization pioneer who is an expert in retail real estate investment, redevelopment and real estate on the blockchain. He started his commercial real estate career in 1985, and then co-founded Concordia Realty Corporation in 1990, which continues to partner with some of the world’s most well-known banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and institutional investors in many successful investments."

Pete Flint

General Partner

NFX

Pete Flint is a General Partner of NFX, a pre-seed & seed stage Bay Area based Venture Capital fund, focused on Network Effects. Prior to NFX, Pete founded Trulia, a leading online real estate company. He was its CEO and Chairman from inception to acquisition by Zillow for $3.5B. Prior to Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team at lastminute.com, a leading European online travel company that was acquired for over $1Bn. He is a founding Board member of New Story Charity, a technology platform focused on building sustainable communities globally, and also a founding board member of GBx, the leading British technology community in Silicon Valley. He received a Master's and First Class Degree from the University of Oxford, and MBA from Stanford GSB.

Chris Flynn

Head Of Product & Strategy

First American Data & Analytics

Chris Flynn is the Head of Product and Strategy at First American Data & Analytics, a division of First American Financial Corporation. Chris is responsible for leading all product, strategy, and marketing for the company’s data and analytics division that includes more than 8 billion document images and major platforms such as DataTree®, FraudGuard®, CovenantGuard™, RegsData®, ACI™, and First American TaxSource®. Chris is an industry expert with more than 20 years of vast experience in product leadership and technology innovation at several fintech and technology companies. He has a deep understanding of customer needs, the dynamics of the mortgage technology marketplace and a thorough understanding of mortgage lending, title and other real estate-related industries. Chris holds a Master of Business Administration from Baylor University, a Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University, and is a doctoral candidate at University of Southern California.

Jeff Flynn

Director Of Proptech Investing

Citi Ventures

Jeff leads proptech investing for Citi Ventures, the multi-stage venture capital arm of Citi. He is also the founder of Noho Ventures, a former Venture Partner with Fifth Wall and Rotor Capital, and former head of Assurant Ventures. With prior firms he led early investments in and was a board observer for Doma, SmartRent, Vacasa, Mynd Management, and others. He’s also led investments in Inspectify, Maxwell, Overmoon, Pacaso, and Pronto Housing. Jeff started his career in investment banking, private equity, and corporate strategy, and holds a BA from Columbia and a MBA from Darden (UVA).

Stephen Forte

CEO & Founder

The BuildClub

Stephen Forte has led Multinational businesses in the US and China, and is a software architect, speaker, entrepreneur and CEO, with a special focus on commercializing new technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision. Stephen's career has been spent successfully bringing high-tech systems to low-tech industries, creating significant shareholder value. Mr. Forte is an expert in mobile apps and software with 28 patents filed and 15 awarded. Mr. Forte has founded and had meaningful exits from multiple tech startups, has been CEO of public and private companies, managed operations in 63 countries, and led P&Ls from startups to over US$1 billion.

Lionel Foster

Investor

Camber Creek

Lionel Foster is an Investor at Camber Creek, a strategic venture capital firm investing in real estate technology companies. Prior to joining Camber Creek, Lionel was Communications Director at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where he focused on topics such as urban development. He also has prior work experience at the Baltimore City Department of Planning and with Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking group. Lionel has a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in urban planning from the London School of Economics, where he studied as a British Marshall Scholar. He earned a JD at Georgetown Law.

Peter Frank

Managing Director

i80 Group

Peter is a Managing Director for the investment team at i80 Group, an investment firm designed to propel the innovation economy forward by empowering growth through bespoke credit solutions. Prior to i80 Group, Peter worked as an investor with a focus on the fintech and proptech sectors with Partners Group, CKC Partners and MicroVest Capital Management. Peter holds an MIB from The Fletcher School.

Ryan Frazier

CEO & Co-Founder

Arrived

Ryan is an experienced entrepreneur and technology leader with a passion for investing. Before joining Arrived, he co-founded and served as CEO of DataRank, a social listening innovation that Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions used to stay informed about consumer trends. After a merger, Ryan became General Manager for Sprout Social Seattle, leading a team of 100 people. Ryan is an alumnus of Y Combinator and holds a B.S. in International Business from the University of Arkansas. He also holds a Series 65 license with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Since purchasing his first home in 2013, Ryan has been exploring ways to reinvent traditional private home ownership to align with the ideology of passive index funds. After investing in public real estate funds for a few years, he decided to apply what he had learned and make it easy for anyone to build their own private portfolio of homes.

Ryan Freedman

General Partner & Founder

Alpaca VC

Ryan Freedman is an entrepreneur turned investor on a never-ending journey to bring efficiency and innovation to the real world. As a founder and General Partner at Alpaca VC, a venture capital firm investing at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds, Ryan leads investments with a focus on PropTech and Construction Tech. Select early stage investments include Compass (NYSE: COMP), Latch (NASD: LTCH), The Guild, Bowery Valuation and ToolBx; select later stage investments include Evolv (NASD: EVLV),Fetch and The SandBox Game. Ryan was a pioneer in PropTech, having been named one of the 15 Most Influential People in Real Estate Technology in 2015 and runner up for the Global PropTech Investor award in 2018. Prior to Alpaca, Ryan founded Corigin, a real estate investment firm with $600 million AUM. He led this firm with a lens towards innovation and has been at the forefront of analyzing and adopting real estate technology to enhance operations and investment decisions. To that end, Corigin had a reputation for building “micro units” before they were termed “co-living” and infusing experience and community into multi-family before it became mainstream. His obsession with technology and efficiency informed his natural progression from a real estate executive to a venture capitalist and leading PropTech investor.

Constance Freedman

Managing Partner & Founder

Moderne Ventures

Constance Freedman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Moderne Ventures and the Moderne Passport, an early stage investment fund and industry immersion program which is focused on investing in technology companies in and around the multi-trillion dollar industries of real estate, finance, insurance, hospitality and home services. Moderne Ventures has more than $400M AUM, has invested in over 135 companies and partners with 700+ industry executives and corporations to build strategic value and scale. Freedman’s initial two funds have produced top decile returns, 4 IPOs (+ 1 IPO pending), 8 Unicorns, and 25+ successful exits. Moderne Ventures portfolio companies have raised over $1.5B in the past year alone.

Cody Friesen

CEO & Founder

SOURCE

Dr. Cody Friesen is a technology innovator passionate about solving the world's grandest challenges. As an entrepreneur and materials scientist, Friesen builds businesses that apply advanced technology to problems facing humanity by creating teams and cultures that lead with love. Founder and CEO of SOURCE® Global, PBC, Friesen and his team developed the SOURCE Hydropanel, a technolgy that makes clean, delicious drinking water from the air independent of infrastructure. Friesen is also the founder of Nant Energy (formerly Fluidic Energy), an advanced battery company powering remote grids worldwide. He is the Fulton Engineering Professor of Innovation at Arizona State University and is a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability. ABOUT DR. FRIESEN Friesen was named by The Aspen Institute as a 2015 Henry Crown Fellow and among the "TR35", top 35 innovators in the world under 35 years of age, by MIT’s Technology Review in 2009. Friesen has led SOURCE Global to be recognized with the CES Innovation Award in 2018 and as a New Energy Pioneer by BloombergNEF in 2019. He was honored as The MIT Lemelson recipient in 2019 for his work as an inventor. He served two terms on the US Manufacturing Council for the US Department of Commerce, as the co-chair of the Energy subcommittee. He has 145 active patent matters worldwide, and 37 granted patents. He earned a BSE in Materials Science and Engineering from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jason Fudin

CEO & Co-Founder

Placemakr

Jason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Placemakr (formerly known as WhyHotel). Placemakr is a tech-enabled operator and real estate investor that blends hospitality and multifamily (with over $1B of real estate on the platform). Before founding Placemakr, Jason managed multi-billion dollar portfolios and developments for large public companies and private developers.

David Fuller-Watts

CEO

Mallcomm

David is the CEO at Mallcomm, an award-winning PropTech tenant experience platform primarily focussed on the retail sector. With offices in London and New York, Mallcomm is used by some of the world's largest retail destinations including Mall of America, Westfield and Oxford Properties portfolios. David has over 20 years’ experience as a business leader and has lived and worked across the world. David has a successful track record in developing and expanding GTM strategies into new and existing markets as well as a strong background building and developing teams that deliver excellence. For the last 15 years he has been focussed on delivering value through PropTech and B2B SaaS solutions within the built environment, working to ensure their global customer service and sales teams are delivering world class service and technology solutions to their clients.

Peter Gajdoš

Partner & Co-Head Of Climate Technology Investment

Fifth Wall

Peter Gajdoš is a Partner at Fifth Wall where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. Prior to joining Fifth Wall, Peter was the Head of Venture Capital at IPM Group and Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Presidio Partners, where he focused on climate tech and biotech venture and growth investments. Peter has been involved in several public listings including Cnano Technology, Arcadia Biosciences, Auspex Pharmaceuticals, and others. Peter started his career at J.P. Morgan's Energy Group in New York before joining Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Green Fund in London. Peter is from Slovakia and currently resides in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his BS in Business Administration, and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on Finance and Entrepreneurial Management.

Shaily Garg

CEO & Co-Founder

GlobalFair

Shaily is the CEO and co-founder of GlobalFair, a technology first B2B marketplace in cross border space. After graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Bombay, Shaily worked at PwC, TransUnion, Procter & Gamble, and Stanza Living. In her time at P&G,  she realised a lot of these supply chain challenges could be solved at scale by using technology and innovative design. And that is what GlobalFair is doing across India, Southeast Asia and the US.

Dave Garland

Managing Partner

Second Century Ventures

Dave Garland invests in technology and entrepreneurs that promise to advance the global real estate industry. As Managing Partner of Second Century Ventures (SCV) - the venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors®, he oversees NAR REACH: the world's top real estate technology scale up program. As an industry practitioner, Dave has acquired, owned and managed portfolios of single family residential, commercial and development properties across America. He has provided two decades of strategic advisory and board services to numerous, public and private real estate and financial technology firms. Dave lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ido Genosar

CEO & Co-Founder

Verobotics

Ido has deep experience in construction and building management, previously holding the position as VP Innovation & Business Development at Israel's biggest facade constructor. He has since been an executive in one of Israel's fastest-growing high-tech startups, bringing both industry insight and tech scale-up experience to Verobotics.

Susan Gerock

SVP, IT & CIO

Elme Communities

Susan Lilly Gerock serves as Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Elme Communities. Most recently, she led the company-wide transformation project to reposition the company from a diversified REIT to a multifamily REIT. She has over 28 years of management and information technology experience in commercial real estate, manufacturing, and retail. Prior to joining Elme Communities, she held various roles at Corporate Office Properties Trust, her most recent serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She previously served as a Senior Information Technology Director for CarrAmerica and as an Information Technology Director for Archstone-Smith. Ms. Gerock serves on the Board of Directors of 826DC and on the Finance Committee of ACT for Alexandria.

Alon Geva

CEO

WINT

Mr. Geva brings 20 years of experience in planning and executing commercial growth in software companies. Prior to WINT, he ran Sales & Marketing at HolistiCyber, the nation-state level cyber security advisor to the private sector and held executive positions at Perfecto Mobile, Comverse Technology, and Akamai Technologies. Alon holds an engineering BSc and MBA degree from the Leon Recanati School of Business at Tel-Aviv University.

Sophia Ghadamian

Principal

Nine Four Ventures

Sophia is a Principal at Nine Four Ventures, an early stage PropTech VC fund that invests in technologies that impact the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with the built world. Based in New York, her responsibilities include originating, evaluating, and executing investment opportunities, as well as supporting existing portfolio companies. In addition, Sophia’s responsibilities include partner management, marketing, and helping manage Nine Four’s pilot program. Prior to Nine Four, Sophia worked as a Project Manager at The Marketing Directors Inc. (TMD), a real estate development consulting firm. At TMD, Sophia developed and implemented the strategy for more than 30 properties in the NY/NJ area. Her clients included developers such as Midwood Investment and Development, Ceruzzi Properties, Trinity Place Holdings, The Fisher Organization, and KRE Group, among others. Sophia received an MBA from Columbia University’s Business School and a BBA from The Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan. She comes from a family of real estate professionals and is excited to bridge the gap between her passions for real estate and entrepreneurship through venture.

Ahmad Ghahreman

CEO, President & Co-Founder

Cyclic Materials

A serial entrepreneur with more than fifteen years of experience in developing cleantech technologies for processing and recycling of resources, Ahmad Ghahreman is CEO, President and Co-Founder of Cyclic Materials. Ahmad is among the early co-inventors of Jetti Resources Inc. tech and is an Ex-Board of Advisory member of Li-Cycle Corp (NYSE: LICY). With dedication and a strong passion for a sustainable environment, Ahmad leads the company's vision to transform the rare earth elements market with ethical, economical, and sustainable sourced metals available for the global market. Ahmad earned his Ph.D. within Materials Engineering from the University of British Columbia and he has co-invented more than fifteen patents.

Raja Ghawi

Partner

Era Ventures

Raja Ghawi is a Partner at Era Ventures, a new Proptech-focused venture capital firm that invests in ideas that leverage technology and innovation to reimagine the built environment. Born and raised in Homs, Syria, he is a graduate of Harvard University where he studied bioengineering. Raja started his career as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company and also spent time with QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI/ML arm. Most recently, he was the Investment Director at Suffolk Technologies, the corporate venture arm of Suffolk Construction, where he invested in Contech and Proptech startups and helped them scale through the firm’s network and resources.

Mick Gilbert

Director Of Energy And Sustainability

Fairstead

Michael leads all of Fairstead’s sustainability initiatives. Before joining the company, Michael was Manager of Business Development for Con Edison in New York City, responsible for shepherding project opportunities in energy efficiency, demand management, and customer resiliency, among other areas. Prior to that, among several endeavors, Michael worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on hazardous-waste remediation and international development. A licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Energy Manager, Michael holds a BS in Agricultural Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from the University of Connecticut.

Josh Glastein

CTO

Berkshire Residential Investments

Josh Glastein serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Berkshire. In his position, Josh is responsible for establishing long-term goals, evaluating new technologies, and improving performance related to the firm’s Information Technology. Prior to joining Berkshire, Josh served as IT Manager at the Baupost Group. During his tenure at the Baupost Group, Josh oversaw technology projects and support for the front and middle office. He has managed technology teams responsible for supporting systems used throughout the entire investment process. Josh received a Master in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from The Pennsylvania State University.

Greg Gleicher

CEO & Founder

Good Developments Group

Founder & CEO of Good Developments Group, a real estate development company building a 100-acre Construction & Design Innovation District in St. Louis. He previously ran development & acquisitions at JDS Development and built iconic skyscrapers in NYC & Miami. He is a WashU alumni and native New Yorker.

Steve Glenn

Founder & Board Member

Plant Prefab

Steve Glenn is Founder and Board Member of Plant Prefab. Plant is the first Certified B Corporation™ building technology company dedicated to sustainable design, materials, and operations. The company’s patented Plant Building System™ utilizes advanced digital modeling and fully customizable Plant Panels™ and Plant Modules™ to help architects, developers, general contractors, and individuals design and build multifamily and custom single-family homes 20 to 50 percent faster than site-based methods. The system provides better quality control, design flexibility, and time, cost, and material efficiency than traditional methods of offsite or on-site construction. Plant has two factories in California (Rialto, Ontario) and recently broke ground on a third facility, the Hub, which will be their first fully-automated factory. Plant also maintains a Design Studio and show home in Santa Monica. With a mission to build a better world by design, Plant Prefab was the first housing prefabricator to announce a net zero goal and actually achieved carbon neutrality in their operations in 2020.

Alon Gorbonos

General Partner & Founder

RE Angels

Alon is the Founder and General Manager of RE Angels, a real estate technology angel fund solely composed of real estate experts with deep and diverse industry expertise focused on early stage startups. In addition, Alon owns and manages several multifamily portfolios throughout the southeast (FL, NC & VA). Alon was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of DTI Holdings, a vertically-integrated private equity real estate fund, which was established in early 2017 and divested in 2021 achieving 20% IRR. DTI Holdings acquired and managed both residential multifamily (Class B & C) and commercial properties. Previously, as a Senior Investment Manager at MIO Partners, McKinsey & Company’s Investment Office, Alon established a new multi-year private equity investment fund of approximately $200 million p.a., building a diverse investments portfolio with consistent strong returns. Prior to MIO Partners, Alon worked as a Strategic Consultant for McKinsey & Company, managing private equity client engagements. Representative engagements included due diligence, portfolio optimization, valuation analysis, and portfolio company transformation.

William Gottfried

Co-Founder

PropUp

William Gottfried is co-founder of PropUp, the industry’s premier vacancy management software. An experienced operator, founder and entrepreneur, William is also a co-founder of Austin-based OTH Capital, a vertically integrated multi-family investment firm, as well as a general partner at Stellifi Venture Capital. Over the course of a decade in commercial real estate, William has gone full cycle on more than 90 multi-family investments and has acquired more than $500,000,000 in multifamily real estate. William initially created PropUp to help solve problems in his own portfolio. After seeing holes in the property management tech stack and the larger need for visibility and accountability in the market, PropUp was re-designed as a SaaS product and has since sold into portfolios totaling more than 140,000 units in less than nine months.

Chris Gough

Managing Director

Houlihan Lokey

Chris Gough is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology Group, specializing in M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory in the fintech, proptech, and vertical software markets. He has nearly 20 years of technology advisory experience across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Chris has been one of the most active advisors in the proptech market, having advised software companies across the residential, multi-family, construction, and commercial proptech segments, including on the sale of BoomTown, StarRez, Real Capital Markets, ATTOM Data, ShowingTime, TurnKey, Lone Wolf, Skyslope, Inside Real Estate, and Propertybase, among others.

Micah Green

CEO & Co-Founder

TAILOS

Micah Estis Green is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Tailos - a robotics company building Rosie - the world’s very first housekeeping robot for hotels, commercial real estate, entertainment centers, and senior living facilities. Rosie is a safe and cost-efficient automated solution for the hospitality industry which decreases the time to clean rooms and public spaces while reducing work-related injuries and improving the room attendant and guest experiences. Rosie also acts as an indoor mobile data platform to empower management with actionable information. Green manages the company and product vision, sales strategy, cash flows, investor relations, and team development. Over the past decade, he has been a serial entrepreneur starting multiple businesses including two successful smartphone applications.

Brad Greiwe

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Fifth Wall

Brad Greiwe is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brad co-founded Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH), a multi-billion dollar owner and operator of single-family rental properties originally backed by The Blackstone Group. As CTO, he positioned Invitation Homes as the dominant technology-forward brand in the single-family rental category, developing a proprietary technology stack to support the valuation, acquisition, rehabilitation, leasing, and professional management of over 80,000 homes in 17 major markets, serving 120,000 residents across the U.S. Brad started his career in investment banking at UBS in the real estate, lodging, and leisure group. He then worked in real estate private equity at Tishman Speyer and Starwood Capital. Brad is originally from Cincinnati, lives in Incline Village, NV with his wife and three kids, and graduated from Harvard University, where he received his BA in economics.

Laurent Grill

Partner

JLL Spark

Laurent is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He works with start-up founders to successfully build scalable teams, strong company cultures, and disruptive products. He has founded, expanded, and managed multiple start-ups prior to his venture career. Previous to JLL Spark, he led Luma Launch’s early-stage venture fund, investing in over 30 companies across a variety of sectors in the software space. As a Partner at JLL Spark he hopes to drive the technology revolution forward in the real estate space. He is looking to identify and back the companies leading the way during this shift.

Teresa Grobecker

CEO

Consortia

Teresa leads several companies in the real estate industry. She founded the first online real estate brokerage in San Francisco. Teresa put American real estate, (the world’s largest asset class) on her private, patent-pending blockchain. The purpose of the ledger is to satisfy Dodd-Frank. Consortia is part of the National Association of Realtors portfolio of companies through SCV REACH. Teresa manages and advises several prop-tech companies. She also consults the largest owners of SFRs, title and escrow, underwriting and real estate companies on Web 3.0, aka, blockchain. Teresa is extremely passionate about real estate and leadership in every form. She has brokered and mentored numerous deals for her clients and agents which included traditional, probate, bankruptcy, short sales, and foreclosure situations. Her real estate knowledge is equal to her ability to effectively work with others – which is the perfect combination to see your transaction to a successful close.

Michael Gulich

VP, Environmental Sustainability & ESG Reporting

MGM

Michael J. Gulich, AIA, LEED AP is the Vice President, Environmental Sustainability & Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Reporting at MGM Resorts International. He leads the development and execution of strategies to reduce the environmental impacts of MGM Resorts’ buildings, operations, and events globally. He has specific operational focus on environmental programs and ensuring the company meets its 2025 and 2030 goals related to energy, climate, water, and materials. Mr. Gulich leads the company’s ESG disclosure/reporting efforts, driving transparency and improving scores across the range of external ESG ratings and frameworks that the company’s investors prioritize. Prior to joining MGM Resorts Mr. Gulich served as University Architect and Senior Director of Campus Planning, Architecture, and Sustainability at Purdue University. There, he directed the integrated campus master planning process for 26 million square feet of facilities and provided the vision, organizational strategy, and focus for advancing sustainability efforts. Before Purdue, Michael served as Vice President and Director of High-Performance Buildings and Strategic Sustainability Consulting at Croxton Collaborative Architects (CCA) in Manhattan. Mr. Gulich is an alumnus of University of California, Los Angeles [M.ARCH II] and Carnegie Mellon University [B.ARCH].

Kathy Hannun

President & Co-Founder

Dandelion Energy

Kathy Hannun is the Co-Founder and President of Dandelion Energy, the largest home geothermal company in the United States. Dandelion electrifies home heating by replacing fossil-fueled furnaces and boilers with renewable geothermal heating and cooling systems. Since its founding in 2017, Dandelion has raised over $130 million in funding from top venture firms including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, GV, NGP, LenX and NEA and empowered homeowners to avoid over 35,000 metric tons of carbon emissions and counting. Dandelion has installed thousands of heat pumps throughout the northeast and has recently begun partnering with home builders to install geothermal heat pumps in new developments. In addition, Dandelion has increased public awareness of the benefits of ground source heat pumps through stories in media such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fast Company, WIRED, Bloomberg, and Techcrunch.

Ofer Harduf

Partner; LP Coverage & Capital Markets

Fifth Wall

Ofer Harduf is a Partner on the Limited Partner Coverage and Capital Markets team at Fifth Wall, where he focuses on strategic partnerships and capital markets. Prior to joining Fifth Wall, Ofer was an Executive Director and Co-Head of PropTech at J.P. Morgan's Real Estate, Gaming, and Lodging Investment Banking group. Ofer also worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions group. He started his career as a Financial Analyst in GE Healthcare and served as a Lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces. Ofer was born within Haifa, Israel and currently lives in New York City. He graduated from the University of Haifa with a degree in Economics as well as Business Administration and received his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Brad Hargreaves

Founder

Thesis Driven

Brad is the editor of Thesis Driven, a publication covering innovation in the built world. Over the past decade he has co-founded General Assembly, a pioneer in education and career transformation specializing in today's most on-demand skills, as well as Common, a multifamily operating company focused on innovative housing typologies like coliving. In addition, Brad sits on the boards of Playcrafting and StageGlass and is an advisor to a number of companies including Breef, Stacklist, and Arrange.

Troy Harvey

CEO & Co-Founder

PassiveLogic

Troy Harvey is the CEO, Co-Founder, and chief product architect of PassiveLogic, creator of the world's first fully autonomous platform for buildings. As a technical CEO, Troy is the driving force behind the vision of the PassiveLogic platform since its inception, guiding the design direction of each piece of the ecosystem to operate seamlessly. This work includes the Quantum Digital Twin Standard—a physics-based ontology for next-generation control and AI that provides the foundation for autonomous systems, as well as directing hardware design and guidance on software implementation. Prior to PassiveLogic, Troy founded a ground-breaking building science and controls engineering firm that innovated a new approach to high performance building design using simulation technology. His passion for user-focused, cutting-edge product design and engineering fuels his dedication to developing PassiveLogic’s physics compute engine and Quantum. He is driven by a vision for a sustainable future, which stems from 20 years of experience enabling energy efficient buildings: an unmatched opportunity for lasting global impact.

Morgan Hays

Chief Product Officer

ALICE Technologies

Morgan is responsible for setting product direction and scaling and leading a global team of product managers and designers. He and his team work in close collaboration with the ALICE engineering team to build out the company’s innovative construction optioneering solution. Before joining ALICE, Hays led product management for a portfolio of five B2B SaaS products within Autodesk Construction Solutions. Previously, he held senior product roles at companies such as TiVo, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, and Cablevision. Hays also co-founded Layer3 TV, a virtual cable TV start-up that was sold to T-Mobile in 2017. Morgan earned his MBA from Emory University and undergraduate degree from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jenny He

CEO & Founder

Ergeon

Jenny He, PhD, is founder/CEO of Ergeon, a tech-enabled construction company. Since its start in 2018, Ergeon has empowered thousands of customers by offering a seamless end-to-end experience aided by cutting-edge remote measuring, quoting, and 3D modeling. This is made possible with the support of an all-remote global staff working in tandem with skilled-local contractors who can scale their businesses with Ergeon's back-end project management. Under Jenny's leadership, Ergeon is transforming the residential construction industry across the U.S. Inspired by her own home improvement trials & tribulations, Jenny set out on a mission to make residential construction as easy as ecommerce for the customer! In a time of severe construction workforce shortages and high infrastructure demands, Ergeon's mission of making construction efficient for both homeowners and installers is critical. Holding contractor licenses in 10+ states, Jenny's approach to leadership in this area is hands-on. Prior to joining the startup world, she was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company where she primarily served Industrial clients and was an Operations Expert. Jenny holds a PhD in and Masters in CS from Princeton University, and studied Electrical Engineering (EngSci) at University of Toronto. In her free time, Jenny enjoys traveling (she's met over 100 Ergeon staff around the globe), cooking, and spending time at home in Palo Alto with her husband John and daughter Maya.

Adena Hefets

CEO & Co-Founder

Divvy Homes

Adena is the co-founder & CEO of Divvy Homes, a proptech company on a mission to make homeownership accessible to everyone. In 2017, Adena set out to solve a problem she saw in the market: fewer people can afford to purchase a home today than two decades ago. To solve this, she came up with a new way to finance a home purchase through a rent-to-own model that allows renters to gradually build up ownership in their future homes - all while living in it. Prior to founding Divvy, Adena joined Square in 2013 and was responsible for building out Square Capital, a merchant cash advance platform with billions in loans outstanding. Prior to Square, she was part of the large-cap buyout team at TPG, a private equity firm, where she helped purchase companies in the real estate sector. She started her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Adena holds a Bachelor of Science, Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration, from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She was named 40 Under 40 by Fortune and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Capital, and Caffeinated Capital. She currently lives in Oakland, California.

Vivin Hegde

General Partner & Founder

Zacua Ventures

Vivin is the Founding and General Partner at Zacua Ventures, one of the leading early-stage global venture capital firms focused on the Built Environment. Zacua Ventures has been one of the most active investors in the Built Environment since its launch last year (10+ deals in the last year) and is backed by some of the leading players in the Built Environment internationally. Vivin has extensive experience in the construction tech space both as an investor as well as an operator across his two decades of experience at Zacua,Hilti, Trimble and McKinsey.

Tom Hennessy

Managing Partner

Hennessy Capital Group

Tom Hennessy is a Managing Partner of Growth Strategies of Hennessy Capital Group, an alternative investment firm founded in 2013 that focuses on investing in industrial, infrastructure, climate and real estate technologies. Tom is a 5x repeat SPAC sponsor, currently serving as Chairman and CEO of two (NYSE: TWOA), a director of Jaguar Global Growth Corporation I (NASDAQ: JGGC), and a director of 7GC & Co. Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: VII). In addition, Tom is a Managing Partner of Hennessy Capital Growth Partners, a growth equity fund that serves as a strategic capital and growth partner to real estate technology and climate technology companies. Previously, Tom served as Chairman, Co-CEO and President of two PropTech focused SPACs, PTIC and PTAC, which closed business combinations with Appreciate Holdings (Nasdaq: SFR) and Porch Group (Nasdaq: PRCH), respectively. Previously, Tom was a Portfolio Manager of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, or ADIA. Tom holds a B.A. degree from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Kate Henningsen

COO & Co-Founder

Arcadia

Kate Henningsen is the Co-Founder and COO of Arcadia, a platform that unlocks access to global utility data, empowering the next generation of climate solutions and giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize. During her tenure, Kate has overseen every function of the business and helped the company grow from pre-revenue to a $1.5 billion valuation. Now, she spends her time scaling Arcadia for sustained growth and impact as well as contributing to the overall strategy and vision of the company. A proud native of Wisconsin and part Green Bay Packer owner, she now lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband and two daughters.

Joshua Henry

CEO, President & Co-Founder

TimberHP

TimberHP co-founder Joshua Henry’s expertise and years of experience researching and developing materials that either conserve energy or produce renewable energy laid the foundation for a career transition from academia to environmental entrepreneurship and sustainable forest products manufacturing. In 2019, Henry and business partner Matthew O’Malia, both from Belfast, Maine, formed GO Lab, Inc, TimberHP’s parent company, and purchased the former UPM paper mill in the Town of Madison. Henry led the effort to successfully raise $150m in equity and bond financing to renovate the mill and open the first wood fiber insulation manufacturing plant in North America. With nearly 70 team members now on staff, TimberHP is already manufacturing its loose fill product, TimberFill, and will bring two more products, TimberBatt and TimberBoard, to market by the end of 2023. As TimberHP’s president and CEO, Henry plays a strategic role in all aspects of the company’s growth and development, with a special focus on engineering, operations, research, and development.

Jessica Herrala

Head Of Sales, North America

Buildots

Jessica Herrala is the Head of Sales for North America at Buildots, an AI-based technology that gives stakeholders the power to know what’s happening on the construction site at any time. Jessica brings 25 years of experience in construction and is passionate about helping women find and use their power to move up in the workplace.

Chris Herrmann

EVP & Chief Investment Officer

Enterprise Community Partners

Chris Herrmann is Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Fund Manager of Enterprise’s real estate equity business, operating under Enterprise Community Investment, an Enterprise Community Partners affiliate. He is responsible for raising, structuring and managing equity funds, as well as managing the teams that originate and close investment opportunities, asset manage the portfolio and report to investors. Chris has been involved with this business at Enterprise since it was created in 2013. The team’s portfolio includes more than 10,000 affordable and workforce homes and represents more than $1 billion of assets under management.

Young Hill

Managing Director

Greystar

Young Hill is Managing Director of Flexible Living Strategic Services at Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC, global leaders in the investment, development, and management of high quality real estate. In Young’s role she oversees teams who pilot, implement, and monitor flexible living solutions.. Young consults with operational leaders and clients on strategies to implement Flexible Living options. During her 18 years in the multifamily industry, she has held leadership roles in corporate housing and property operations.

Rowland Hobbs

CEO & Co-Founder

Stake

Rowland Hobbs is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stake. Stake is the leading incentive optimization platform for rentals. With technology that aligns incentives between residents, operators, owners, and investors, everyone earns the Return on Rent™ they deserve. Stake is building the financial infrastructure for the next generation of rentals including revenue management, payments, CRM, and renter wealth building such as banking and credit building. A leader in financial product design, Rowland led Accenture and Teneo’s product design practice. Rowland previously founded two companies, and has been recognized by Forbes, Insider, and Fast Company. His inspiration for Stake came from a unique overlap of his work in microlending, loyalty platforms, and banking services.

Vincent-Charles Hodder

CEO & Co-Founder

Local Logic

Vincent is the CEO and co-founder of Local Logic, a company quantifying everything outside the four walls of any asset to help build more sustainable and livable cities. Passionate about cities, tech, and how they can work together to change how our cities are built, Vincent has always been at the intersection of Urban Planning and Real Estate. Prior to co-founding Local Logic, Vincent co-founded a real estate and urban planning consulting firm and gained real estate experience working for a real estate development firm as well as a public affairs firm. Vincent has a B.A. in Finance from HEC, and studied Urban Planning at McGill University.

Mary Hogan Preusse

Senior Advisor

Fifth Wall

Mary Hogan Preusse is a Senior Advisor at Fifth Wall, where she focuses on strengthening the firm’s relationships with its corporate real estate investors and with the broader real estate industry. Mary has over thirty years of experience in real estate, investment management, leadership, and strategy. She is the lead independent director of Kimco Realty and serves on the boards of three other public companies: VEREIT, Digital Realty, and Host Hotels and Resorts. She is also a member of the board of directors of Industrious, the private flexible workspace provider. Prior to her current work as board director and advisor, Mary served as Managing Director and Head of Americas Listed Real Estate at APG Asset Management US. Prior to joining APG in 2000, Mary spent eight years as a sell side analyst covering the REIT sector, and began her career at Merrill Lynch as an investment banking analyst. In 2015, she was the recipient of NAREIT’s E. Lawrence Miller Industry Achievement Award and currently serves on that organization’s Advisory Board of Governors.

Donald Holley

Managing Director

AGNC Ventures

Donald Holley has served as a Managing Director in our corporate venture capital unit, AGNC Ventures, since September 2018, and was previously Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of MTGE Investment Corp. Prior to joining MTGE Investment Corp., Mr. Holley was a Director at Freddie Mac, responsible for the valuation and presentation of financial results for the company's investments, debt and derivative portfolios, worked as an accounting policy and assurance Director at Credit Suisse, prepared corporate governance research at Deutsche Bank, and was an Audit Manager at Arthur Andersen. Mr. Holley is a Certified Public Accountant and a CFA charterholder.

Karen Hollinger

Managing Director

KKR Capstone

Karen Hollinger is the Managing Director for KKR Capstone, focused on the Real Estate portfolio in the Americas. Prior to this position, Ms. Hollinger was the Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives for AvalonBay, responsible for leading large multi-year strategic initiatives including areas of technology innovation, the newest Kanso brand and concept community, and venture-capital investment in proptech and ESG. While at AvalonBay, she was point on digitizing the construction, development and asset management functions for AVB’s multi-billion dollar pipeline and was an executive for several departments at AvalonBay, including technology/data analytics and Operations. Among other duties, she was point for establishing the Customer Care Center in Virginia Beach, VA, a large industry-leading shared services center.

Spencer Holtzman

Director

Stone Point Capital

Spencer Holtzman is a director at Stone Point Capital focused on investments in healthcare & managed care services and real estate finance & services. He joined Stone Point in 2015 and has more than 5 years of experience in the private equity and investment banking industries. Before Stone Point, Spencer was with Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an Analyst, Investment Banking. Spencer has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California.

Tim Hyer

CEO & Co-Founder

Trusty

Tim Hyer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Trusty, an invite-only agent network unlocking hidden demand. Trusty completed Y Combinator in 2022 and has received $3M in venture funding to date. Tim graduated from Duke University and has founded multiple early-stage startups over the past 15 years. Tim lives with his wife, four children, and two dogs in Marin County, CA.

Linda Isaacson

Senior Advisor

ACRE

Linda J. Isaacson is a Senior Advisor at ACRE, where she brings deep industry knowledge, expertise, and strategic insights. In her new role, she provides guidance to the firm, ensuring alignment with the core principles and values of its investors. Linda is a recognized leader in sustainability practices, with a particular focus on accelerating progress toward achieving net zero by 2050. As a thought leader in corporate sustainability, she drives ambitious action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), unlocking business value, building resilience, and enabling long-term growth. In addition to her advisory role, Linda previously served as Partner, Head of ESG & Impact, and Chair of ACRE’s Venture and Impact Capital vertical, collaborating with the firm’s Founding Partners to establish and manage investment vehicles. Her focus remains on early-stage companies and technologies that create social impact and drive innovation in the built environment, sustainable communities, climate tech, and health tech.

Lee Jackson

SVP, Digital Solutions

JLL

Lee's diverse background has organically led him to his position today as a founding business line advisor for JLL Digital Solutions Advisory. He is a consultant and a connector for the commercial real estate, enterprise retailer, venture capital and property technology industries. Lee's evaluates and advises on the purchase and investment of technology solutions for his clients, supporting multiple business critical functions.

Josh Jensen

CEO & Co-Founder

Inspectify

Josh Jensen is the CEO and co-founder of Inspectify, a venture-backed technology platform in the property inspection space. Inspectify streamlines the property inspection experience across the entire property lifecycle through its network of 2,000+ inspectors and proprietary inspection and data technology. The company is backed by prominent investors including Nine Four VC, Foundation Capital, Munich Re, DivcoWest and top executives from startups such as Opendoor, Built Technologies, Side, Sundae, Flyhomes, and Steadily. Before Inspectify, Josh was the Vice President of Operations at Flyhomes, a nationwide real estate brokerage, where he was responsible for all real estate operations for the company and helped scale the business from seed to Series B. Josh is also an active real estate investor, holding rental properties on both the East and West coast. He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Josh resides in Seattle, WA, with his wife, Mary, two daughters, and a newborn son.

Nicholas Johnson

CEO & Founder

Orange Charger

Nicholas Johnson is the CEO and Founder of Orange Charger. He loves to commercialize technology that creates new ways for people to contribute to living carbon-neutral lives without compromising or making life worse. He first started on this mission working as an electrical design engineer at Tesla, bringing the Model 3 thermal designs to market. He later co-founded LYT a company that creates A.I. traffic management and transit software to optimize traffic signals to reduce congestion. Now with Orange, he aims to solve the challenges for multi-unit dwellings looking to offer electric vehicle charging. Today Orange has installed thousands of charging stations nationwide and offers property owners an affordable charging platform generating a true return on investment while providing electric vehicle drivers with convenient, affordable energy.

Katelyn Johnson

Managing Director

American Family Ventures

Katelyn Johnson is Managing Director at American Family Ventures, where she focuses on early stage B2B enterprise solutions in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. She has provided mentorship to TechStars, Harvard Business School, MIT, and MassChallenge, and is Executive Director of the Horn Program VC Council at the University of Delaware. An engineer by training, Katelyn is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

Ramiro Juliá

Founder & Chairman

Americas Capital Investments

Founder & Chairman of Americas Capital Investments. Entrepreneur. More than 30 years of experience in real estate investments. Founder of Parque Empresarial Austral, Research and Technology Park of Buenos Aires. Graduate of the MIT Center for Real Estate, Innovation IAE Business School. Served as Chairman of ULI South America.

Craig Kaiser

President & Co-Founder

LandGate

Craig Kaiser is the President and co-founder of LandGate. He is the former Owner and Chairman of Kamara Kaiser Mining Company. He is also a former executive in Alaunt Exploration, a private equity (Warburg Pincus) backed exploration company focused on energy assets in Colorado and Wyoming. Craig has worked for Anadarko Petroleum, Newfield Exploration, Lion Mountain Mining Co., among other energy companies serving in areas of focus ranging from greenfield exploration to full-scale project development. He received a BSc. in Geosciences from Chadron State College as well as an MSc. in Petroleum Geology from the Colorado School of Mines where he received multiple fellowships and awards. He and his wife Elizabeth have been blessed with four beautiful little girls.

Jeevan Kalanithi

CEO & Co-Founder

Openspace

Jeevan Kalanithi is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpenSpace, the leader in 360° construction site reality capture and analytics. OpenSpace has been deployed on projects exceeding $500B in total value, in more than 90 countries; the OpenSpace Vision Engine has processed more than 18B square feet of reality data to date.. Prior to starting OpenSpace, Jeevan served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Lux Capital. Jeevan sold his first company, Sifteo, to 3D Robotics, where he eventually became the company’s President. Jeevan holds a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford and an MS from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

Aleh Kandrashou

CEO & Co-Founder

Cuby Technologies

Aleh Kandrashou Ph.D. is the CEO of Cuby Technologies, Inc. Cuby, a construction technology company, was founded in 2021 with almost 100,000 engineering hours before that, and it's setting the stage for commercializing hundreds of mobile micro-factories that erect on or near construction sites to enable developers to build better buildings with less labor. Aleh is a repeat deep-tech entrepreneur, physicist, and lean manufacturing expert who previously founded EnCata, the leading engineering catalyst for engineering startups in Eastern Europe. He also authored, The Human Vector, a book on scaling deep-tech teams.

Jeremy Kaner

General Partner

Olive Tree Ventures

Jeremy Kaner is a General Partner at Olive Tree Ventures and Managing Director at Olive Tree Holdings. In his role, Jeremy oversees all of OTV’s investment activity, helps lead portfolio company management, helps lead the Strategic Partner Network, and is also a member of OTV’s Investment Committee. Before joining Olive Tree, Jeremy helped lead early-stage PropTech / ConTech investing at Tishman Speyer. Before joining Tishman Speyer, Jeremy helped launch Picus Capital in the Americas and helped lead their early-stage PropTech / ConTech investing efforts. Prior to moving into the VC space, Jeremy helped found the PropTech & ConTech Investment Banking group at Barclays, where he advised category-leading PropTech / ConTech companies. Jeremy started his career in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Barclays after graduating from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Economics.

Minta Kay

Partner

Goodwin Procter LLC

Minta Kay, Partner and Leader of Goodwin’s Proptech Group, is focused on supporting her clients in the converging area of Proptech, driving strategy to effectively help her clients navigate their business goals and challenges. Minta advises funds, companies and investors on a wide range of matters, including formation, financing and capital raising, platform development, privacy and intellectual property matters. Many of the groups she works with are developing their own sustainability goals that involve matters focusing on carbon neutrality and accounting, construction means and methods, a community’s health journey and more. Minta is heavily involved in a variety of Proptech industry organizations, and has been quoted in several leading publications. She also currently serves on the CREtech Leadership Board and ULI’s Global Exchange Council. Minta’s understanding of the importance of connecting real estate, the environment and technology, paired with her collaborative nature, allows for natural synergy focused on achieving shared goals.

Martin Kelly

President

Blueprint

Martin oversees Blueprint which is most famous for the Blueprint Vegas event that brings together innovators across real estate, construction and climate tech relating to the built world. He is spearheading the efforts to shine a light on people, technology and projects that are impacting the future of this sector. Before joining Blueprint in 2022, Martin was Managing Director at Context365, a leading alternative investment technology platform and led the business development efforts until it was acquired by Apex. Martin started his career in London before moving to New York in 2010 and subsequently becoming Managing Director - Americas for Terrapinn, a leading global B2B Media business. He has also held roles as one of the Founding Members of the Great British Business Club Committee for UK Trade & Investment and other advisory positions.

Kyle Keogh

Chief Business Officer, Americas

Cover Genius

Kyle Keogh is the Chief Business Officer, Americas at Cover Genius, the insurtech for embedded protection. Cover Genius protects the customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Booking Holdings and Intuit. XCover, its global distribution platform, is also available at Amazon, eBay, Flipkart and Shopee. In his role, Kyle oversees P&L, business operations and strategic planning across Cover Genius’ North American and Latin American regions. Prior to Cover Genius, Kyle spent more than a decade in numerous leadership positions at Google working with clients to drive sales, improve their brand and maximize product launches. Before that, Kyle was a Director of Business Transformation at IBM, and he started his career serving technology and telecom clients at McKinsey & Co. and JP Morgan. Kyle earned a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College, studied at the London School of Economics, earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and received an MBA from Dartmouth College. He plays an active role educating and mentoring the next generation of MBA students as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and serves on the Board of Chautauqua Institution.

Lynette Keyowski

Managing Partner

REACH Canada

Lynette Keyowski brings over 15 years of experience in executive leadership in North American real estate, in both CEO and CTO capacities to her role as Managing Partner with REACH Canada.. As an entrepreneurial CEO and executive professional, Lynette’s focus is advancing innovation in both organizations and technology in the real estate sector through collaboration and trust. She first mentored for REACH in 2014; spearheaded groundbreaking industry initiatives across Canada; has been a strategic advisor to national and international real estate corporates; and led the Canadian expansion of the global award-winning REACH scaleup program in 2020. In 2021, she was named a RISMedia Trailblazer for her role in the REACH global expansion, and is currently a Finalist for the Universal Women’s Network 2023 Woman of Inspiration Award.

Taejo Kim

Managing Director

Oaktree Real Estate

Since joining Oaktree in 2008, Mr. Kim has been involved in the sourcing, analysis, execution and asset management of various real estate investments for Oaktree’s Real Estate strategy. His focus has been on commercial and residential investments including office, industrial, hotel and home building assets located in the western United States. Prior to joining Oaktree, Mr. Kim was an analyst in the real estate investment banking group at Banc of America advising real estate companies on M&A and capital raising transactions. Mr. Kim received a B.A. degree in economics with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

Pat Kinsel

CEO & Founder

Notarize

Pat is the Founder and CEO of Notarize, the pioneer in online notarization. Pat was previously a partner at Polaris Partners. Before joining Polaris and founding Notarize, Pat was a co-founder & CEO of Spindle until it was acquired by Twitter in June 2013. Prior to Spindle, Pat was at Microsoft incubating new concepts and bringing them to market. Pat serves on the board of Lob and was the lead investor in Drizly. Based in Boston, Pat serves as a mentor at the Harvard Innovation Lab and committed to helping the entrepreneurial community.

Jonathan Klein

Founder

Proptech Consulting

Jonathan is a seasoned innovator with a proven record in integrating technology and fostering innovation. His journey spans across media, thought leadership, and emerging technology with esteemed organizations such as The New York Observer, Gigaom, and GeoCV. Now, he lends his expertise to the dynamic PropTech sector. As the driving force and Managing Director behind PropTech Consulting, Jonathan excels at harmonizing future-oriented insights with strategic business planning. PropTech Consulting is a trailblazer in bridging the divide between real estate and technology, offering strategic growth advisory services along with tailored digital twin concierge solutions. Dealing with a diverse range of clients from property developers and operators to startups and investors, PropTech Consulting stands out in its ability to enhance efficiency, amplify acquisitions, and escalate revenue throughout all stages of the real estate lifecycle. Jonathan is an alumnus of Indiana University at Bloomington, holding a BS in Public and Environmental Affairs, and New York University, where he earned an Advanced Certificate in Digital Media Marketing. His extensive experience and deep understanding of the field position him as a respected authority in the PropTech industry.

Matt Knight

Founder

Proptech Angel Group

Matt Knight is a PropTech investor focused on commercial and multifamily technology. He is the founder of the largest angel group in the world focused exclusively on technology in real estate, the PropTech Angel Group. He also actively works with a few institutional owners of real estate on building an investment and piloting strategy around emerging technologies. Matt was formerly a General Partner at Shadow Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on construction and real estate technology. Matt was responsible for capital raising and formation as well as deal sourcing and underwriting. During his time at Shadow, Matt also built an incubator, an accelerator, and an annual event known as Shadow Summit. Matt often speaks and writes about emerging trends or false narratives in PropTech via The Vertical newsletter.

Adam Kramer

CEO & President

nZero

A globally recognized sustainability leader, Adam Kramer is the CEO of nZero, the world's leading carbon management and accounting platform. Prior to nZero, Adam was Executive Vice President of Strategy at Switch (NYSE: SWCH), where he led the sustainability group overseeing the company’s transition in 2016 to 100-percent renewable energy use by developing the largest behind-the-meter solar and storage project in the world.

Lance Lambert

Real Estate Editor

Fortune

Lance Lambert is the real estate editor at Fortune Magazine. He also writes the Fortune Analytics newsletter, and reports on topics ranging from the future of work to the housing market. He previously worked as a data journalist at Bloomberg Businessweek, Realtor.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has a degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati.

Ryan LaRue

Director Of Innovation And Portfolio Strategy

Barings

Ryan LaRue is a member of Barings Real Estate, a global real estate platform with extensive capabilities across both debt and equity strategies. Ryan is Director, Innovation and Portfolio Strategy, responsible for identifying innovative investment strategies across the U.S. Real Estate platform and fund complex with a particular focus on innovation and targeted capital deployment into prop tech, niche product types and emerging market locations. Ryan has worked in the industry since 2015. Prior to his current role, Ryan was a critical member of the Barings Real Estate Research team and most recently covered the U.S. multifamily and hotel property sectors.

Tessa Lau

CEO & Co-Founder

Dusty Robotics

Considered one of the most influential women in robotics, Dr. Tessa Lau is an award-winning CEO and roboticist whose most recent venture, Dusty Robotics, is revolutionizing the construction industry. Dusty automates the BIM-to-field layout process through a robotic FieldPrinter, eliminating costly errors and speeding up construction schedules. Prior to Dusty Robotics, Dr. Lau was co-founder, CTO, and Chief Robot Whisperer at Savioke (Relay) Robotics, where she automated hotel delivery and orchestrated the global distribution and management of consumer-facing robots. Dr. Lau was also an early member of Willow Garage, the legendary research lab and technology incubator known as one of the most influential forces in modern robotics. Though closing its doors in 2014, Willow Garage is responsible for the creation of an open-source robot operating system that's still being used by academics, engineers, and hobbyists around the world today. Dr. Lau is a frequent speaker at business, technology, and construction conferences and has received numerous awards, including 2023 Construction Dive's Up and Coming Women in Construction, Silicon Valley Business Journal's Women of Influence, SVR's Innovation Award, and the Award for Excellence from the Association of Computer Machinery. Currently living in Silicon Valley, Dr. Lau holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Jindou Lee

CEO & Founder

HappyCo

Jindou Lee is the CEO and co-founder of HappyCo, a software company that builds mobile and cloud solutions to enable real-time property operations. Prior to his current role, Jindou also founded and exited two previous tech companies. Jindou graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Visual Communications (Design) and subsequently worked for Midway Games where he led the User Interface team to work on classic titles such as Mortal Kombat, Gauntlet, and Dukes of Hazard. Besides his love for technology, Jindou is also an avid real estate investor and enjoys spending time with his family.

Ryan Leeper

Investor

Heartland Ventures

Ryan is an investor at Heartland Ventures. In this role at Heartland, Ryan manages deal sourcing, due diligence, and co-investor relations. Prior to joining Heartland, Ryan invested across InsurTech, PropTech, and FinTech at Nationwide Ventures. Ryan is passionate about bridging the gap between best-in-class technology startups and Heartland's roster of Midwest business partners.

Alice Leung

Vice President

Brick & Mortar Ventures

Alice started her career in the AEC industry with DPR Construction in the San Francisco Bay Area building UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She led the Bay Area Skunkworks group and implemented various construction technologies on project sites. In April 2016, Alice relocated to Singapore to help start up the Southeast Asia HQ for DPR Construction as the resident BIM/VDC and construction technology expert and worked on data center projects. She was part of various workgroups led by the Singapore Building and Construction Authority (BCA), was a part-time lecturer for the BCA Academy BIM Management Certification Course, taught BIM courses for RICS and spoke at various conferences in the region. She joined the Digital Built Environment Institute(DBEI) organizing committee whilst in Asia and is now part of the DBEI North America Committee since her relocation back to San Francisco. After realizing the slow pace of digitization in the construction industry, Alice joined the Brick & Mortar Ventures team to work with startups that want to disrupt the way we design, construct and maintain the built world. Alice holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University where she was on the Formula SAE racecar team and worked in a materials science lab researching lead-free piezoelectrics.

Nate Levin

Investor/Advisor

Nate is an investor and advisor to PropTech companies, and was previously a Managing Director at Parker89, overseeing venture capital investments for First American Financial (NYSE: FAF). He was also at BCG Digital Ventures where he advised Fortune 500 C-suite teams in mortgage, real estate, and financial services on digital strategy and new business creation, including launching the digital closing company Endpoint for First American. Prior to BCG, Nate was an investor at Primera Capital (seed backer of Fandango, Houzz, Chegg, and VMware) where he made early-stage venture investments and worked closely with portfolio companies on product strategy. Nate began his career as an operator, leading product management at four startup companies in telecom, database design, cybersecurity, and enterprise SaaS. Nate has a Masters in History from Oxford and a Bachelors in International Studies from Johns Hopkins.

Cecilia Li

SVP, Chief Information Officer

Urban Edge Properties

Cecilia Li, Chief Information Officer, serves as a strategic partner to the executive management delivering vision, critical analyses, and recommendations. With over 20 years of experience with a focus on customer service and digital transformation, she leads the strategy and implementation of their technology operations and aims to deliver continuous and impactful solutions to the business. You will often find her speaking on relevant topics related to innovation, business intelligence, cybersecurity, and operations optimization. She plays an active role in bettering the built environment; She served as the Co-Chair for Realcomm, is a Board Member of Real Estate Cyber Consortium (RECC), is the recipient of several awards in the industry and mentors aspiring IT professionals.

Brian Lichtenberger

CEO & Founder

Markerr

Brian is a two-time Founder and CEO with expertise leading growth-stage data analytics and technology companies. Brian is the CEO & Founder of Markerr, a data analytics company serving institutional investors, owners and operators of commercial real estate. Brian was previously Cofounder & CEO of 7Park Data, founded in 2012 in NYC. In December 2018, 7Park was acquired by Vista Equity Partners. After two years as a Vista portfolio company, 7Park was acquired by Apptio in January 2021. Brian has held senior leadership roles at MasterCard, Majestic Research, and HyperFeed Technologies. His career began at BDO Seidman during which he earned his CPA designation. Brian received his BA in accounting from North Central College where he was also Captain and 4-year letter winner in the Baseball program.

Colin Litow

VP, Operations & Products

Mycocycle

Colin came to Mycocycle in 2022 from Continuus Materials, a circular waste-to-value manufacturer that uses paper and plastic waste to manufacture building products. He has a strong background in product and brand management, having launched several innovative products to market during his time at James Hardie Building Products and the Kraft Heinz Company. As Vice President of Product Development, he will lead the rollout of Mycocycle's solutions to the broader market. Colin earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Syracuse University, an M.S. in structural engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A in marketing and strategy from the University of Michigan.

Matthew Lloyd

CEO & Founder

Smartplan

Matthew Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Smartplan. Matthew recently left Google to bring his product to market, a product that is revolutionizing the test-fit process for leasing teams and building owners. In short, Smartplan uses a subset of AI to automate and streamline the tedious process of completing a test-fit, so you can now generate multiple test-fits instantaneously, at 10% of the cost while removing all of the back and forth that currently takes place with the architect. Think ChatGPT for test-fits. Matthew brings almost 15 years of architectural experience to this product, after encountering the same, repeatable, manual motions of being an Architect, day in, and day out, both in the US, Australia, Japan and UK, he quickly discovered there has to be a better way to solve for this almost century-old industry paradigm. So in 2019, he began working on Smartplan.

Austin Lo

CEO & Co-Founder

Peek

Austin Lo is founder and CEO of Peek, whose mission is to create a better way to find a home. Prior to launching Peek in 2019, Austin worked at an investment fund, creating data-driven models to invest in e-commerce and internet platforms. He is also a licensed New York Real Estate Salesperson and a lifelong photography enthusiast–both of which sparked his interest in leveraging 3D virtualization technology to bring the e-commerce experience to finding a home. Austin is a graduate of Columbia University’s engineering school.